Friday, February 03, 2017

There’s a monster on the loose

I’ve made the comment numerous times before about how I
always compare the current times to the turbulent 1960’s and how there has been
no real comparison of civil unrest, but that is no longer the case.We are living a time depicted in the words of
the Steppenwolf song – Monster and its scary for most of us. What should be
exciting and enthusiastic times is now like the whole world is sliding into the
abyss.

The liberal-minded people are no longer liberally minded
when it comes to being tolerant of anything other than their personal agendas.
They are violent and unpredictable and highly intolerant on anything once
deemed cautious and conservative.They
have always accused conservatives of being violent gun-toting rednecks and now
they are that very genre, except for the guns and I suspect that is what we
will face next.

Almost anything conservative is now under attack by them and
violently so. This is going on in every civilized major city on earth. The
victim mentality is pervasive to the point that they simply feel justified in
doing whatever they want including rape, robbery, destruction of personal
property and using the F, P, and C words at major televised gatherings. Every
stage is now a place where anyone of semi-fame uses it for political tirades.

“The spirit was freedom and justice and its keepers seemed
generous and kind. Its leaders were supposed to serve the country, but now they
won't pay it no mind. Cause the people grew fat and got lazy. Now their vote is
a meaningless joke. They babble about law and order, but it's all just an echo
of what they've been told.”

Yea, there’s a monster on the lose and many of us feel like
it is going to roil over into total anarchy unless reasoning citizens all over
the world want to live like there has been a pandemic that sets us back 200
years. I can easily imagine a world like the one depicted in the Mad Max
movies, but do I want to live like that? No electricity, no potable water, no
stability and safety, and no food? No and not just no, but heck to the no.

With the way things are going right now, it appears 50% of
this nation would rather see the new President fail and the country collapse
than make a semblance of working to make it better. I know the people who voted
against him won’t think so harshly when they can suddenly go to work because he
created job opportunities. It’s hard to speak bad about someone who does good
things for you.

“The cities have turned into jungles and corruption is
stranglin' the land. The police force is watching the people and the people
just can't understand. We don't know how to mind our own business 'cause the
whole world's got to be just like us. Now we are fighting a war over there. No
matter who's the winner we can't pay the cost.”

Many of the elaborate
changes Trump is enacting are either reversals of Obama executive orders, or
simply enforcing existing laws, but is it possible people would rather go
berserk with rage than do a little fact checking? Talk about fake news. Angry
citizens have their heads buried so deeply in their own prejudices that
anything can set them off.

The crux of the truth here is that 90% of the earth’s
population just wants to live in safety and peace without being overly
controlled by any government, but you have religious instigators, actors,
athletes, and power-driven politicians who keep everyone stirred up. People
just want food and shelter and a sense of hope for the future and all these
demonstrations and belly-aching is having the opposite effect they desire. Now
there is speculation that Lady Gaga is going to use Super Bowl halftime to
project an anti-Trump campaign.

It makes me sick to my stomach and I would feel the same
thing if it was Toby Keith or Lee Greenwood going all anti-Obama 4 years
ago.The election is said and done. Accept it and move on. Wouldn’t it be
something if everyone would actually work together to make this country an even
better place to live? Whining and crying and beating up people who voted
differently than you is not only sad, but it is assault and probably battery.

"America,
where are you now? Don't you care about your sons and daughters? Don't you know
we need you now? We can't fight alone against the monster."